13 Things You Didn’t Know About The Breakout Awesomeness That Is Rosa Salazar

The actress has nabbed roles in “The Divergent Series: Insurgent,” TV’s “Parenthood” (BABY THIEF!) and “American Horror Story: Murder House,” and will be seen in this weekend’s “The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials.” And it’s not just her impressive resume that should make you take notice: she also seems to be a pretty awesome human being as well.

Here are 13 things you should know about rising star Rosa Salazar.

So international!

The two starred in indie “Night Owls” together, and, as she told InStyle, “He’s like my work husband and he’s so funny. We’re about do another movie by the same director and writer of ’Night Owls.’ We love working with each other, and that’s all you really want to do, right? Be around the Adam Pallys of the world.”

“I wear American Apparel jeans every day of my life,” she told InStyle.

Welcome to the Finer Things Club.

Because my best friends are all named Angela, I could have two or three Angelas mad at me on any given day.

“Oh man, I just could not shut up!” she told Ross Carey. “I was just that kid in the family that you put on the table and watch it dance around and you’re like, ’Oh, look at that hyper kid!’”

In an interview with the Huffington Post, “Night Owls” co-star Adam Pally recalled the first time he met Salazar. “I didn’t know who she was, and she came into hair and makeup dressed as Pocahontas,” he said. “When you meet Rosa, anyone who meets her right away is like, Who is that?”

“I told myself when I was broke and homeless that my biggest goal was just to have a house,” she wrote in Nylon. “That goal was achieved. I’m just really, really lucky.”

In an interview with We Got This Covered, Salazar said, “I just practiced doing that kind of stuff as a kid all the time. I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.”